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SENSUAL IMPRESSIONS: NEW ORLEANS/MOSCOW

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SONIA LINEBAUGH

Author of At the Feet of Mother Meera: The Lessons of Silence, and the (unpublished) novels The Wisdom Project, The American Year, and the Hardest Thing.

23 JUNE 2014 SENSUAL IMPRESSIONS: NEW ORLEANS/MOSCOW

SENSUAL IMPRESSIONS: A Confederacy of Dunces/The Master and Margarita

My husband and I were 23 and 22 when we visited New Orleans two months before John Kennedy Toole’s March 26, 1969, suicide. 

I remember a quaint room off a garden with a wrought iron fence, the smokey power of Nat and Canonball Adderley’s jazz, and the tinny horns of old men who played for tips in narrow spaces between the clubs. This year, when I first read Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, the impression of sensual overload came rushing back. New Orleans is a city that doesn’t let go. 

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